Morphological Changes due to River Bank Protection

When bank protection works are constructed along an eroding outer bank, it is often observed that the bed along the outer bank becomes substantially deeper, sometimes causing the failure of the bank protection works themselves. Despite our awareness of this deepening phenomenon, its causes and quantitative estimation is still a matter of...

The history of the Dutch Coast in the last century

The aims of this paper are: 1. To publish some available coastal measurements and computations of more than local importance. 2. To investigate the influence of groynes in practice. 3. To investigate the motion of the gullies in the outer deltas. The following conclusions are drawn: 1. The gross littoral drift along the Dutch coast is of the...